In addition to what Richard said, table rows don't split across pages. So if
you have really long table rows, it can cause awkward page breaks.
Nadine
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>From: "Combs, Richard" <[email protected]>
>To: Tim J. Slager <[email protected]>; "[email protected]"
><[email protected]>
>Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 10:31:18 AM
>Subject: RE: Table jumps to next page
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>Tim J. Slager wrote:
>
>> I have a multi-page table that skips to the next page to start, leaving
>> most of the previous page blank. The table is preceded by a heading.
>> Both the heading and the table start on the next page.
>> - Table is set to Start: Anywhere
>> - Heading is set to Start: Anywhere
>> - When I change the heading to body text, the table starts on previous
>> page as it should.
>> - All pertinent settings in the heading seem to be identical to those
>> for body text.
>> - Hold on. If I clear the Keep With: Next Pgf for the heading, the
>> heading and table don't jump to the next page. This doesn't make sense
>> to me but, hey, it works.
>> - I'm downgrading this inquiry from Help! to Why?
>
>I'm guessing that your table is anchored in the heading pgf instead of in its
>own anchor pgf. In that case, the heading's Keep With Next Pgf setting tries
>to keep it with the pgf that follows it, which is the first pgf after the
>table.
>
>Unlike Word, FM's object model doesn't treat a table as a continuation of the
>main text flow. (That's why, unlike Word, you can't move the cursor into the
>table from the preceding text flow.)
>
>An FM table is more like an anchored frame. Both tables and anchored frames
>are represented in the flow by a single zero-width character, the anchor. And
>for all intents and purposes, the frame or table resides in the pgf in which
>it's anchored.
>
>If you turn on View > Text Symbols, you can easily demonstrate this to
>yourself. Put the cursor somewhere to the left of the table anchor in the
>heading pgf preceding the table. Now press the right arrow key repeatedly.
>When the cursor reaches the end of the heading pgf, the next key-press takes
>it to the beginning of the pgf following the table. That pgf is what actually
>follows the heading pgf in the main flow, since from a flow perspective, the
>table is contained in the heading pgf.
>
>HTH!
>
>Richard G. Combs
>Senior Technical Writer
>Polycom, Inc.
>richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
>303-223-5111
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